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Higasliiyania in Kyoto l)y Toyoda Yok(n. The record of this exhihition 

 is entitled Sha hen yo rokn. In Ajnil of 1762, it was held 

 at Yushima in Yedo l)y Hiraga Gennai. At this meeting- 1300 speci- 

 mens of natmul objects were exhibited. Ex] Sanations of tht exhilats 

 are to be found in a work entitled Butsn mi Hin pits?/ in 6 volumes 

 published by Hiraga Gennai. In April of 1763 the conversazione was 

 held at Higashiyama in Kyoto by Kan ko do, and 240 specimens were 

 exhibited. In April of 1764 the same man held exhibition at Higashi- 

 yama again, and Hiraga Gennai at Yushima, Tokyo, and Toda Kyokzan 

 in Osaka, and also Murai Ton in Kumamoto. In 1765, Himi Dosai 

 held the exhibition at Maniyama in Kyoto. In 1781, the exhibition 

 was held in the medical college of Yedo, and it was op.ened to the public, 

 and from this year onward held every year. In Kyoto, Yamamoto Boyo 

 held the exhibition from 1809 onward every year until his death. In 1827, 

 Ito Keiiiike held for the iirst time a natural history exhibiticm in Nagoya. 



Investigations of flowering and ornametal plants were carried 

 out by men other than naturalists. The oldest work on this 

 subject is tlie Kiva dan Gomolm written by Midsuno Motokatsu 

 in 1664, and printed in 1681, Avhich treats of the culture method 

 of 117 species of herbaceous flowering plants. In 1695, the Kiva- 

 dan ch'iMnsJw in 6 volumes by the florist Sannojyo was published 

 in which garden varieties of Mutan, Camellia Japonica, Camellia 

 Sazanqua, Azaleas, Clierries, Mumes, Chrysanthemums, and other 

 flower are faithfully enumerated and also the culture methods of great 

 many ornamental jilants are described- This w(»rk was afterward 

 supplemented and enlarged to 20 volumes and is looked on as one of 

 the most useful books in Japanese garden botany. In 1698, Kaibara's 

 Kiva fu appeared in which the culture methods of 190 species of 

 ornamental j'lants are described. In 1699, the Sohwa ye zenshu was 

 printed in 3 volumes, which contain illustrations of 110 species of garden 

 flowers. The oldest publication on chrysanthemum culture is the Chi'yo 

 mi Gusa, published in 1699, later works are the Shut ko shin shU in 

 1712, the Nochi no Iwna in 3 volumes in 1713, the Kiva dan yo Kiku 

 Shu in 3 volumes in 1715, the Kiku Hahidaye in 1 volume in 1716, 

 the Kiku kiva taizen in 3 volumes in 1717, the Fuso Hyak/diiku Fu 

 in 1735, the Kikukyo in 5 volumes, and the Kiku Kivadan Yashinai 

 Gusa in 1 volume in 1846. Let me here seize the opportunity to tell 

 about the exhibition of the cultivated chrysanthemum flowers. 



An exhibition of the cultivated large-flo^^-ered Chrysanthemum 



